Skills for Inclusive and Collaborative Innovation

Skills do not evolve in a vacuum. What this means is that while individuals on all side of the science-society interface do need to build skills and acquire competencies to bolster knowledge use, skills also evolve in organizations and organizations need to be structured in such a manner as to enable them. A strong science society interface requires that these organizations have sufficient knowledge capacity. Most importantly, ensuring that actors at the science-society interface have the skills and knowledge they need and can deploy them fully also requires apt, inclusive policy that targets not only education and training, but also support across the ecosystem for capacity building for knowledge and change management and the bolstering of the kinds of cross-sectoral partnerships on which the innovation ecosystem thrives.